Hi cuciferus,
Thanks for pointing me to the gentoo wiki hardware list. It's impressive.
Still it does not have the
Gericom Supersonic 1000
which I am setting up.
I did find a .config on the net for the 2.4.18 kernel
http://techinfo.system33.de/LinuxOnGericom/index.html
http://www.tutorials.de/forum/linux-tutorials/144865-linux-bericht-debian-auf-gericom-notebook.html
(no .config posted)
but the 2.6 kernel config file is quite different, it seems.
Anyway, it would be interesting for me to find out the reason for the
described problem. I have found a similar mail from someone else not for
sound, but without solution/reason.
How can a kernel module not not know about the request_module symbol from
vmlinux?
Roland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 03.09.2008 08:17:00:
> On Monday 01 September 2008 15:45:56 Xav' wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:33:28 +0200, Roland Puntaier
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am installing Gentoo on an older notebook of mine and have the
> >
> > following
> >
> > > problem:
> > >
> > > After a first try to make sound work, where I had OSS checked in the
> >
> > For a first start, OSS is now deprecated, so you have to use ALSA
instead
> > in the kernel.
> The kernel oss is now deprecated
> >
> > > kernel configuration,
> > > I followed the gentoo alsa guide
> > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
> > >
> > > But got a lot of "unknown symbol" entries at boot (viewed afterwards
via
> > > dmesg).
> > > The first seems to be the reason for the others: unknown symbol
> > > request_module.
> > >
> > > request_module is defined in vmlinux (via "nm vmlinux | grep
> > > request_module")
> > > but not linked in soundcore.o ("nm soundcore.o | grep
request_module"
> >
> > says
> >
> > > U(ndefined))
> > >
> > > Since request_module is needed to load kernel modules, no kernel
modules
> > > can be loaded, and therefore symbols from such modules are not
there.
> > > This leads to the other "unknown symbol" messages. So the question
is,
> >
> > why
> >
> > > request_module does not get linked properly.
> > >
> > > What I already tried:
> > > I saved the .config and did
> > > make mrproper
> > > and restored .config.
> > > Then
> > > make && make modules_install
> > >
> > > But that did not help.
> > >
> > > Did somebody experience anything similar?
> > > Could somebody give me a hint how to solve this problem?
> >
> > I think your .config file will help us more than you expect, and also
the
> > output of your dmesg :)
> >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > Cheers. Roland
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Xavier Parizet
> For laptops you could eyeball the wiki for they have there a complete
setup
> for most of the laptops. Also on the wiki you'll find a nice oss4
tutorial.
> The first advantage of oss4 it's that is soooo much easier to setup.
> Also for further help you might try to be more specific: what laptop
model?
> what sound card because maybe by chance some of us already did setupthe
same
> model with success.
>
